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Article: Teaching Statistics Using Baseball.(Book Review)
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- The American Statistician
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Teaching Statistics Using Baseball.
Jim ALBERT. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America. 2003, xi + 288 pp., $45.00 (P), ISBN: 0-88384-727-8.
I am sometimes invited to give presentations about teaching statistics. Like almost everyone in the statistics education community who gets such invitations. I encourage those in attendance to use real data. It has always seemed important to me that the data be meaningful to the class. The type of problem considered should either be chosen by the students themselves or presented by the instructor, so that there is a contagious excitement about the value and the meaning of the data. A dataset with ...